Melyssa
Melyssa was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 2,023 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Melyssa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Melyssa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Melyssa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,012, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
121 babies in 1989, the peak
Melyssa peaked in 1989, when 121 girls were given it, #1,303 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #13,012 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,726 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,667 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,780 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,223 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,600 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,447 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,240 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,637 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,534 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 26 | #5,256 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,071 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,486 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,060 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,439 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,975 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,331 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,772 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,005 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,790 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,999 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,042 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,755 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,780 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,614 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,269 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,377 | 32.2 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,439 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,170 | 35.3 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,240 | 33.0 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,714 | 48.1 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,745 | 46.1 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,494 | 56.0 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,819 | 41.6 |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,303 | 65.6 |
| 1988 | 104 | #1,371 | 58.4 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,827 | 36.8 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,994 | 32.1 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,385 | 24.4 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,604 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,764 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,860 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,207 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,576 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,136 | 29.3 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,062 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,708 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,364 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,360 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,514 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,582 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,827 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,576 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,171 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,905 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,925 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,841 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,739 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,142 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Melyssa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Melyssa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Melyssa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Melyssa, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,023 Americans ever recorded as Melyssa. The median Melyssa alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,827 people named Melyssa (1,827 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,958 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 299 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 995 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 531 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Melyssa born?
The states with the most babies named Melyssa are California, Texas and New York, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 394 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 99 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 77 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 34 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Melyssa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Melyssa is most over-represented in California: since 1965 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Melyssa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Melyssa?
Melyssa is a less common spelling of Melissa: SSA has recorded 2,023 Melyssa and 762,623 Melissa since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 796,668 babies since 1880, Melyssa is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 804 babies recorded by SSA was a Melyssa (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Melyssa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Melyssa and names like it
- Compare Melyssa and MelissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMelyssa peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Melyssa since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Melyssa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Melyssa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.